PANews reported on February 16th that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on the X platform: "Peter Steinberger (founder of OpenClaw) will join OpenAI to drive the development of the next generation of personal intelligent agents. He is a genius with many amazing ideas about how intelligent agents will collaborate to provide practical services to people. We expect this to soon become the core of our products. OpenClaw will exist as an open-source project within the foundation, and OpenAI will continue to support it. The future will be an era of highly multi-agent systems, and supporting open-source projects is an important part of achieving this goal."